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Republic

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Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
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In the Piraeus, after a festival, Socrates discusses what justice is. To see it writ large he imagines an ideal city with three classes, ruled by philosophers whose education culminates in knowledge of the Form of the Good. Its ten books contain the critique of poetry, the equal education of women guardians, the images of the sun, the line and the cave, the typology of degenerate regimes and the myth of Er on the choice of lives. Plato's central work and that of political philosophy.

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Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Republic, Volume I: Books 1–5

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 2013

    Translation: Chris Emlyn-Jones y William Preddy

    ISBN 9780674996502

    Loeb Classical Library 237, bilingüe

  • Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 — Plato

    Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 2013

    Translation: Chris Emlyn-Jones y William Preddy

    ISBN 9780674996519

    Loeb Classical Library 276, bilingüe

  • Republic

    Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2008

    Translation: Robin Waterfield

    ISBN 9780199535767

  • The Republic — Plato

    The Republic

    Penguin Classics, 2007

    Translation: Desmond Lee

    ISBN 9780140455113

  • Plato: Complete Works — Plato

    Plato: Complete Works

    Hackett, 1997

    Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)

    ISBN 0872203492

    Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

  • Republic — Plato

    Republic

    Hackett, 1992

    Translation: G. M. A. Grube, rev. C. D. C. Reeve

    ISBN 9780872201361

  • The Republic

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 3; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • La República de Platón ó Coloquios sobre la justicia

    Josef Collado (Madrid), 1805

    Translation: José Tomás y García

    Primera traducción castellana completa conocida; dominio público

  • La República o el Estado (tomos 7 y 8)

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 7; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos IV: República

    Gredos, 2000

    ISBN 9788424910273

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 94; trad. de Conrado Eggers Lan

  • La República — Plato

    La República

    Akal, 2009

    ISBN 9788446023784

  • La república

    Alianza Editorial, 2012

    Translation: José Manuel Pabón y Manuel Fernández-Galiano

    ISBN 9788420671680

  • República — Plato

    República

    Tecnos, 2019

    ISBN 9788430976294

Other works by Plato

Sources

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).

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